Annual runoff and erosion in a recently burn Mediterranean forest – The effects of plowing and time-since-fire

Geomorphology

Volumn 270, Issue , 2016, Pages 172-183

  Vieira, D C S ^a   Malvar, M C ^a   Fernandez C ^b   Serpa, D ^a   Keizer, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b Centro de Investigacion Forestal de Lourizan   (Spain)

Author keywords

Land management; Plowing; Runoff; Soil erosion; Time since fire; Wildfire; Window of disturbance

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND MANAGEMENT; PLOWING; RUNOFF; SOIL EROSION; WILDFIRE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84979530264     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.06.042     Document Type: Article

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